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- Television Shows > Cougar Town > Season 2 > On The Set > On The Set – 1st March 2011
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- Television Shows > Cougar Town > Season 2 > On The Set > On The Set – 28th February 2011
Kevin Biegel posted this on his twitter earlier today..
Shooting in Hawaii, Turtle Bay resort been super cool and accommodating (sounds like a shill, but I just love it)
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- Television Shows > Cougar Town > Season 2 > On The Set > On The Set – 23rd February 2011
With Courteney Cox’s “Cougar Town” settling into its second season, the sitcom has gotten away from its attention-grabbing title — especially now that Cox’s character, Jules, is settling down with her neighbor and boyfriend, Grayson (Josh Hopkins). Cox spoke with Metro about the changes — and cases of wine — the show is going through.
What did you think of your character finding a long-term relationship so soon?
I think it’s just a new approach. It’s a functioning relationship, but with two kind of really non-functioning people in some ways. I mean, Grayson doesn’t really know how to have a relationship.
When did wine become such a central part of the show?
You know, I do like wine, there’s no question, and [creator] Bill [Lawrence] does like to take things from our personal lives and put them in the story, but he exaggerates. So yes, I like wine and yes, I might fill a glass more than other people. And it’s not that the wine is real — although sometimes it is. You know, late in the day sometimes.
Will we see any other “Friends” on the show?
I don’t know. I mean, Matthew’s got his own show. Matt LeBlanc has got his own show. Lisa and Jennifer have already done it. And Schwimmer is probably doing so many things — probably directing — and just got married. I don’t know. I don’t think so.
Much like the Parks and Recreation crew during their downtime, the Cougar Town cast and crew are going to be keeping busy on Vulture during their two-month hiatus. Creators Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel have kindly agreed to put their downtime to good use by settling a series of long-simmering disputes between the show’s actors and writers right here on Vulture. Each week, a different cast member will help air out a rift between him or herself and the scribes — and then settle said grievance once and for all. This week, we kick off with Dan Byrd, who plays Courteney Cox’s long-suffering son, Travis. Turns out his Bieber-simple hairstyle is the subject of much scorn on the show’s set, and the time has come for an intervention. Click the video to see what happens, then come back to Vulture every Wednesday for a new grudge match.?
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- Television Shows > Cougar Town > Season 2 > On The Set > On The Set – 9th February 2011
Matthew Perry made a short mention of Cougar Town/Courteney in a recent interview
Will we see you on Cougar Town ever?
MP: I sort of subscribe to that thing where I want a little bit of time to establish my character in this. I love the show, I think Courtney obviously is hilarious and a really good friend of mine. I just want there to be a little more distance before we do that. I didn’t think that people would be able to watch it and not see Chandler and Monica. But I think if my show is lucky enough, to go on playing with different people, maybe.
COURTENEY Cox has read the scathing criticism of her first comedy vehicle since “Friends” and yes, she understands it.
But Cox insists Cougar Town is no longer the show the haters called shrill, desperate and hysterical.
Heck, Channel 7 boss David Leckie even called it “shit”.
But, like a bad marriage, Cox and her castmates are finding it hard to break free of those early critiques.
For those living in a pop culture-free orbit, the title was meant to play on the contemporary term for an older single woman who prefers to date younger men.
Playing divorced real estate agent Jules Cobb, Cox was meant to strike a blow for female empowerment.
Instead, after a mauling by the critics and social commentators, the term turned predatory.
“Before it was like, ‘I don’t want to watch Cougar Town and Courteney Cox getting on to a younger guy every week’ … oh, please,” Cox says.
“It’s not what the show was even then, but it did have a negative connotation. Now we just don’t know how to get out of that title, we don’t know what to do with it. It’s terrible, so we just decided to make fun of it each week.”
The self-effacing gag comes in the opening titles, slugged variously with a reference to the criticism, for example “(the badly titled) Cougar Town” or “It’s OK to watch a show called Cougar Town“.
Cox is frank about the attacks, but grateful they weren’t too personal.
“I was kind of lucky early on and didn’t get pummelled too bad,” she says.
“They weren’t really attacks on me. If it had been attacks on me, that’s when I go dark, deep.”
For her it was mostly about the frenetic pace of the program – a signature of executive producer Bill Lawrence, of Scrubs fame.
“I’ve got to say, when I first saw the pilot … it seemed to go so fast. I was used to Friends pace, but this was just like zing, zing, zing, zing. And I just sat there and said, “Oh shit, this is really different than what I thought”,” Cox says.
“Even though I liked it, I thought, “This is crazy”.”
A shift in that rhythm was timed with Jules finding a stable partner in neighbour Grayson (Josh Hopkins), which has seen the on-screen chaos calm a little and a third season given the green light.
“Even though it’s still fast-paced, I think we’ve slowed down. I think we all learn from our mistakes and the critics seem to be liking it more,” she says.
Just don’t expect Cox to play the rock, a la Monica on Friends.
“I just want to continue to have her be kooky, as opposed to stable. Jules may be the centre of the show, but she’s just as kooky as her family.”
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